Ring Evolution

Bored tonight while my husband is watching football and thought… who doesn’t love ANOTHER ring post? lol. I thought it would be fun for people to share their evolution of ideal rings. I’ll go first.

Back in college, for years, I always wanted a .5 ct princess cut solitaire on a plain band.

Then I broke up with my ex and didn’t think about rings for years. When I started to think about marriage with my current husband, the first rings that caught my eye were super detailed halo rings with yellow diamonds.

Then halos got SUPER popular and I decided I wanted something I was sure to love forever, so I fell in love with the Tiffany Novo

Which led my husband to propose with my actual e-ring, which I LOVE!

And now (three years later)… if I had it all to do again (not that I don’t love my ring because I DO but it is always fun to dream about diamonds, especially when the dream includes an unlimited budget and no other financial responsibilities haha) I’d go for something like this… plain band and a 2ct cushion.

Funny how I kind of came full circle back to a ring VERY similar to my original taste 10 years ago!! Albeit with a slightly different shape and a much larger rock haha.

I always wanted the classic 6 prong Tiffany solitare on a plain band, until I saw Birks had this ring:

It’s a 4 prong solitaire btw, also with a round diamond, so very similar to the Tiffany ring, but I LOVE the sapphire accent.

We ended up going to a custom jeweler and getting a ring very similar to the Birks one for the same price as the one we were considering at Birks, but were able to get a larger diamond (with our budget we could have done max .75 carats at Birks, my diamond has pretty much the same cut/colour/clarity as we would have bought at Birks but is 1.02 carats).

I also wanted the exact same round baguette stone ring you posted years and years ago and then I never really thought about it. I just knew I wanted Platinum and I wasnt sure if I wanted round, princess … and Fiance and I never discussed it at all! I got a platinum, round solitaire and I love it 🙂

I never really thought about rings until my Fiance brought up the subject of getting married. Knowing that I tend to walk in the opposite direction of what the “norm” is, I knew I didn’t want round. I wanted something different, yet I wanted the ring to have some traditional qualities. Originally I thought I wanted a halo, but then decided a solitare with micropave might be a nice way to weave in new ideas with traditional ones. So, I told him square or rectangular shape, split shank and micropave and he did a bang-up job! It even has some tiny milgrain which was a total bonus!! 🙂